hi,
I've been doing a more direct style game for quite a while now. I've been doing it mainly in bars and sometimes close. While, It doesn't work every time any means, I've had a decent amount of success. I've been able to get myself to approach a lot more because I've logically convinced myself that there aren't really any social consequences to approaching in this environment. Often, even the girls that "have boyfriends" give me respect for coming up to them.

During the day, I go to bikram yoga everyday. I suffer from chronic pain and it helps me both with that and to stay in shape. there are decent amount of attractive girls. However, it feels really high risk to approach them for me. I feel if I approach in a direct manner ( a.k.a. hey, I want to meet you, or I think you're really cute) I worry that being rejected there could hurt my image at the yoga place. On the other hand, I feel like such a wuss when I don't go up to girls in this environment.

Does anyone have experience approaching in such an environment. Also, I don't think indirect openers would work very well. In general ( this is the least with true if the hot girls), girls will arrive at yoga and lay down and be solitary before class. Also, after class they won't be hanging out being social or anything like that. I feel if you wanted to talk to them you have to put yourself out there. also, if you had experience approaching in such an environment, what experience have you had with rejection on your social reputation. I know, when I believed that approaching women at bars and getting rejected was if anything making me cooler and not a creep in the eyes of the girls I approached, I started doing it a lot more. If I had that same mindset in this type of environment, I feel I would do it a lot more as well.

this is almost always true, get used to it. I would recommend you approach after class and not before, this helps with time restrictions, the target being at ease, and an easier close. As a closed environment I think you do need to be more careful but that doesn't preclude approaching and opening. Since you are going to see all these chicks again why not make it a 2 step process.

The first time you just go up to your target after class, ask her a question on a pose/form and see if you can have an innocuous convo with her.

The second time just say hi and gauge her reaction, if she seems more into you ask her for coffee after class.

whatever you do dont stare at her or other targets during class, thats an insta-fail.